22/12: Most pirated movies of 2010

According to TorrentFreak, the Oscar-winning mega-blockbuster was downloaded from torrent websites an amazing 16,580,000 times. That represents a 33% increase in download activity from last year's top-pirated film, Star Trek, which was downloaded just under 11 million times.

Here's the full list of the 10 most pirated films and number of downloads as recorded by TorrentFreak:

1. Avatar / 16,580,000
2. Kick-Ass / 11,400,000
3. Inception / 9,720,000
4. Shutter Island / 9,490,000
5. Iron Man 2 / 8,810,000
6. Clash of the Titans / 8,040,000
7. Green Zone / 7,730,000
8. Sherlock Holmes / 7,160,000
9. The Hurt Locker / 6,850,000
10. Salt / 6,700,000